Senior Data Platform Engineer

About the role:** We're looking for a talented multi-disciplinary **Senior Data Platform Engineer** with a passion for infrastructure, who will be responsible for the performance, scale, and stability of their core data platform products. They are a data-driven organization, ingesting data at high rates, with demands increasing each day. As a **Senior Data Platform Engineer**, you will be part of the Data Platform group and will be responsible for a large-scale production data platform that serves as the core infrastructure of their products. You'll develop self-service tools that support the accessibility of their platform for the use of their users from R&D and Analytics departments. They will look to you to be a center of knowledge, consult, and share your expertise with others. **What you'll be doing** - Lead the development of AI-ready data platform foundations, including data quality, contracts, observability, and self-service tooling that power machine learning and AI-driven products - Administer, provision, and monitor their different platform products - Develop, maintain, and enhance the application infrastructure that works tightly with their Data Platform infrastructure tools - Guide development teams and mentor other team members - Use your creativity to resolve complex and high-scale data-related issues - Research new technologies, starting from POC level to production-grade systems **Requirements** - 6+ years of prior experience as a Data Platform Engineer / Big Data Infrastructure engineer or equivalent - Deep understanding of distributed systems, in terms of ingestion, storage, and access - Hands-on experience with Data Streaming technologies: Apache Kafka / Apache Pulsar / Spark Streaming / Kstream / Apache Flink - B.Sc. in Computer Science (or equivalent) - Experience working on large-scale, production-grade projects ## Nice to have * * * **Advantage** - Experience with tools like Apache Spark and Databricks. - Experience with the Cloud Native stack( Kubernetes / Prometheus/Istio etc.) - Experience with a cloud provider (AWS, Google etc.) - Experience with Infrastructure tools (Helm, Ansible, Terraform etc.) - Experience with Scala